BEDAD is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. BEDAD is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BEDAD?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BEDAD is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BEDAD
No single letter turns BEDAD into another word.
How BEDAD scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BEDAD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| d | 2 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What does BEDAD mean in Scrabble?
interjection
Irishinformalarchaic
A mild Irish oath, a euphemistic form of by God, used to express surprise, emphasis or mild exclamation.
Speakers reach for bedad the way an English speaker elsewhere might say indeed or my word, softening a stronger oath into something acceptable for polite company while still carrying real emphasis. Writers representing Irish speech in fiction and drama, from the nineteenth century onward, often place bedad in a character's mouth as a quick, recognizable marker of Irish dialect. The word belongs to a small family of similar euphemistic oaths, including begad and bejabers, all built on the same instinct to avoid saying God directly in casual speech. Outside deliberate representations of Irish dialect or older literature, bedad rarely appears in current everyday English.
How BEDAD is used
Irish and informal, chiefly literary; used to represent Irish speech in fiction, drama and older writing rather than in ordinary current conversation.
- Bedad, said the old man, I never thought I'd see the day.
- She laughed and said, bedad, that's the funniest thing I've heard all week.
- The playwright gave the character a habit of saying bedad at every surprise.
- Bedad, but the weather has turned cold overnight.
- He muttered bedad under his breath when the horse won.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BEDAD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in BEDAD
Common questions about BEDAD
- Is BEDAD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BEDAD, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BEDAD worth?
- BEDAD is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BEDAD mean?
- A mild Irish oath, a euphemistic form of by God, used to express surprise, emphasis or mild exclamation.
- What letters can be added to BEDAD?
- No single letter can be added to BEDAD to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BEDAD:
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